Well, at risk of duplication the week has been one roller coaster of highs and higher highs and music. Last Saturday we enjoyed the superb performance of the Gondoliers by the Southampton University Gilbert and Sullivan Society. They have expert actors, comic and serious, singers, designers...and lighting designers (my own son!). There was more music …
Higher and higher…
What a week this has been! So full of nice surprises and excitement. Last Saturday we enjoyed a train ride to Southampton where we had a rest before meeting son for a meal. This was followed by another superb production of a Gilbert and Sullivan show, this time The Gondoliers. My son's lighting was sympathetic …
A starry morning…
What an exciting morning! The Year 5 class from local primary were enraptured with the facts they learnt from my talk about the solar system and space generally. What was amazing was that the teacher who came to collect them was one I had worked with in Another Life back in Berkshire. At the time …
A thought-provoking book
I came across the Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder which won the 1928 Pullitzer Prize. It is evocative and contains the powerful final paragraph: But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But …
Library talk
Birds
Hanging out washing busy, hopeful. Busy birds feeding Blue Tit exhausted Grey Haggard Babies flying, first to line then to trees. How fine a sight! 30 springs pass heartache and joy laughter and tears Another spring another nest Baby birds feeding Shouting fit to burst Hanging out washing, busy, peaceful. Baby birds feeding Great Tits …
Seeing stars
Last Friday evening the sun was shinging and the birds were singing as I pulled into the NLO carpark for the Friday Astroscouts session. The group arrived, full of excitement and anticipation as usual. They were not disappointed. We went outside to view the sun - a bright disc with a hairy surround - through …
The Bird Watcher
The Bird Watcher “It’s there again”, her daughter shouted through from her vantage point at the front room window. She joined her and watched as a seagull cocked its head on one side, looking to the left and right as it did so. “I’m scared, Mum.” “Don’t be silly, it’s just scavenging for food, that’s …
Help is at hand…
Just waiting for a picture of a scary squid to go on the front cover and the manuscript is ready to send out to agents. A friend has offered to forward it to someone they know in the publishing world. Someone from the Short Stories Facebook group has sent me a database of agents currently …
In the Library
My revised edition of Beyond the Horizon is now in Exeter Central Library.
Karen Hedges 